“House of the Year”: The contestants look back in panic

There is a temptation, when making a documentary on some paper practices from the past, for filmmakers to treat their topic as something to wander in. Do you believe how the previous generations were back? Let’s each point and stare Winse.

“Housewife for this year((In the theaters), which was directed by Siaran Cassidi, can easily go in this direction. The film revolves around (and after) a vivid television competition at the peak time that took place from 1969 to 1995 in Ireland-and this is large A simple meal, of course, keeps up with its appearance. To enhance these values.

As Irish society changes, especially with regard to women’s rights and reproductive freedoms, competition eventually turned into a “housewife”, open to all both sexes. But this is not the focus of the documentary, and there is no harmful novel that explains to us what happened. Instead, the “House of the Year” focuses on two main ways to tell her story. The first is an archive clips of the competition, which enhances the amount of focus on women’s care and even underestimating them, through the male host, Gay byrne, by conducting interviews with them on stage. Wonderful viewing.

But woven all the time is the current interviews with many participants, now much larger, who see things differently than perhaps they did it at that time. They tell stories about what was already happening in the background: alcoholic or fatal couples, economic disasters, and the employment that suffers from it. One of the women talks about giving birth to 14 children by the time when she was 31 years old, due to the prohibition on contraceptives.

Women ask themselves about these interviews. “Why did we just go with these things?” One asks, a feeling that others repeat. It was “the world of dreams that people accepted all these things,” which are another. Only a couple looked back at the time with anything other than ambiguity and pain.

The resulting movie is exactly great because we hear their voices. More importantly, there is a kind of dignity that gave topics through this approach. They ask questions, meditate in the past, and they resolve what is often lost when we look back in history. People at that time were not different from what they are now – they were just formed in a world with a set of assumptions that may vary on their own. There is sympathy for this approach, to remind us that one day we will also make documentaries back, disgusting in what we lived in, what we allowed, what we assumed was normal.